LLMs & Models4 min read
AI Safety Research
AI models can't stop thinking out loud. That's both good news and a nightmare for safety.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 can control its chain-of-thought only 2.7% of the time, versus 61.9% for final outputs. The gap raises open questions about the robustness of CoT monitoring as a safety mechanism, and nobody knows why it exists.
2026-03-09